“Only in individualist societies is it so important to control what individuals are and how they behave and think. There it is understood that the society’s success or failure, its integration or breakdown, is ultimately determined by the competence and conformity of the individual. As a result much of the effort of modern society goes into constructing appropriate individuals…”
–John W. Meyer, quoted by Bruce Henricksen in “The Construction of the Narrator in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’“

Yes, this is via the Rattus.